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List of solo piano compositions by Franz Schubert

The following is a list of the complete output of solo piano works composed by Franz Schubert.

Quick reference

Legend to the table:

✍ indicates a direct link to the manuscript at the Schubert-Autographs website by the Austrian Academy of Sciences

indicates a direct link to the score at International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

For the Piano Sonatas: there is no uniform numbering of the sonatas. The Deutsch catalogue does not number the sonatas. In the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe the sonatas are also not numbered. There are several issues which make the numbering difficult: e.g. which of the incomplete sketches are to be included?... in what order are they to be presented?... The current list retains the following numbering systems:

  • 15 sonatas — numbering of the piano sonatas according to – Serie 10: Sonaten für Pianoforte (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1888), the first publication that claimed to print the complete set of Schubert's piano sonatas. The Deutsch catalogue was yet to be created, so there are no Deutsch numbers in the original 1888 publication. This edition is reprinted from 1970 on by Dover Publications. IMSLP has facsimiles of many of the sonatas according to this first edition, including the numbering X,1 — X,2 — etc. on the score.
  • <sup>n</sup> 19 sonatas, numbering according to the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe, Series VII/2, volume 1–3.
  • 21 sonatas — numbering of Schubert's piano sonatas as most encountered on recordings etc., for instance on the Schubert page at Classical Archives. Also IMSLP follows this numbering for . Wiener Urtext Edition follows the same numbering, except that Op. 122 is No. 8, the ensuing D. 571, 575, 613 and 625 all shift up one number, and D. 655 is an unnumbered fragment.
  • 23 sonatas — numbering of the piano sonatas as encountered in Franz SCHUBERT: Catalogo delle composizioni at and Franz Schubert Catalogue: 610 - Oeuvres pour piano at .

Note that in Schubert's lifetime "Fantasie" (Fantasy) and "Sonate" (Sonata) had a somewhat overlapping meaning: by convention the Wanderer Fantasy was never numbered as a sonata, while , first published as a Fantasie, always was.

Other columns in the table:

  • Op.: Opus number, "(p)" or "posth." indicates a posthumous publication.
  • D.: Deutsch number; between square brackets: former Deutsch number

Table

Completed numbered sonata Unfinished

Complete list

The table includes the following information:

  • D – the catalogue number assigned by Otto Erich Deutsch or NSA authorities
  • Former Deutsch Number – information on Deutsch numbers that have been re-assigned, when applicable; listed in "[...]"
  • Opus Number – the opus number of the original publication of the work, when applicable; "(p)" or "posth." indicates a posthumous publication
  • English Title – The title of the work in an English translation from German
  • Informal Title – any additional names by which the work is known, when applicable
  • Original Title – The title of the work in German as it appears in the Deutsch catalogue or the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe
  • Autograph Link – ✍ a direct link to the manuscript at the Schubert-Autographs website by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Score Link – a direct link to the score at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) website
  • Date – the known or assumed date of composition, when available; or date of publication
  • Numbering Systems of Piano Sonatas – the numbering of the piano sonatas as listed in the Breitkopf & Härtel and Wiener Urtext Editions, described above
  • Version – the number of versions as it pertains to works that have more than one version of the same work/movement
  • Notes – any additional information concerning the work: alternate titles, listing of movements or numbers, tempo markings, completeness, relation to other works, authorship, etc.

Scores

References

Lists of (piano) compositions by Schubert

Other sources

External links